Hacker News: eleveriven

New comment by eleveriven in "Microsoft rejects critical Azure vulnerability report, no CVE issued"

eleveriven — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:22:31 +0000

The most worrying part here is not even whether this specific issue deserved a CVE. It is the incentive structure.

New comment by eleveriven in "Apple vs. EU Commission: DMA second round"

eleveriven — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:09:17 +0000

The permission to intervene matters because otherwise this risks becoming a fight between Apple, the Commission, and a few large industry players

New comment by eleveriven in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

eleveriven — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:28:22 +0000

It also fits the broader theme here: too much important behavior seems to live in the "application layer" of the charger, while the more durable source of truth is elsewhere.

New comment by eleveriven in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

eleveriven — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:10:24 +0000

This is funny, but also exactly why ads in a conversational assistant feel different from ads in search

New comment by eleveriven in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

eleveriven — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:46:34 +0000

The uncomfortable part is that "ads as a last resort" sounds very different once the product becomes one of the main places people ask for advice

New comment by eleveriven in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

eleveriven — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:34:10 +0000

The most interesting part to me is not that ads exist, but how invisible the boundary becomes

New comment by eleveriven in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

eleveriven — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:31:05 +0000

If you were around those circles, a lot of the "signals" in the article just look like the shared baseline culture rather than anything uniquely identifying

New comment by eleveriven in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

eleveriven — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:26:58 +0000

Also, Szabo's whole reputation comes from bit gold and years of writing about exactly these ideas

New comment by eleveriven in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

eleveriven — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:24:21 +0000

It's technically true, but it's also a very selective framing

New comment by eleveriven in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

eleveriven — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:22:57 +0000

Yes, this seems like one of those cases where "the public is curious" and "the public has a right to know" are being blurred together

New comment by eleveriven in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

eleveriven — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:20:44 +0000

Back is one of the best candidates, but unless coins move or some cryptographic proof appears, this remains a well-argued theory, not a resolution

New comment by eleveriven in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

eleveriven — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:03:23 +0000

But that's also kind of what makes it impressive in a different way. Even if the game was larger on disk/tape, they still had to stream it in tiny chunks and make it run within those constraints

New comment by eleveriven in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

eleveriven — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:00:29 +0000

I think you're right about the waste, but I'm not sure it's entirely "accidental"... a lot of it is traded for different kinds of efficiency

New comment by eleveriven in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

eleveriven — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:57:55 +0000

It really puts into perspective how different the constraints were

New comment by eleveriven in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

eleveriven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:33:59 +0000

When companies are spending that much capital, they almost can't help becoming unreliable narrators about what the technology can do right now versus what they hope it will do in two or three years

New comment by eleveriven in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

eleveriven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:27:33 +0000

You still need rhetoric, timing, emotion and narrative. But I'd say the lesson is "good ideas need good communicators" not "good ideas need lies"

New comment by eleveriven in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

eleveriven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:26:19 +0000

Sometimes good ideas just have to fight habit

New comment by eleveriven in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

eleveriven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:25:29 +0000

Lots of things succeed after early hype not because the lies were necessary, but because the underlying idea was good enough to survive them

New comment by eleveriven in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

eleveriven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:24:08 +0000

It is a bit overstated as a universal rule, but as a practical heuristic it is excellent

New comment by eleveriven in "Personal Encyclopedias"

eleveriven — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:13:40 +0000

Feels like a nice middle ground between what the article describes and something more tangible